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Titans let the Chargers drive 52 yards in 40 seconds, with no time outs, to kick the game winner.
 
Meanwhile, the Raiders win on a play that simply CANNOT be described.  I have NEVER, EVER seen it before.  YOU MUST FIND THE HIGHLIGHT.
 
It's the most Raideresque play EVER...it makes the Immaculate Reception look planned.  But the Raiders are on the plus side.
 
Wow.  Titans and Pats become major losers on the day.  And y'know who ELSE is only a game out?  Jacksonville!!!!

RDJ agreed to a lowball $500k up front in exchange for something like 5% of net on the back end.  Then he and Jeff Bridges went and ad-libbed the first IM which I don't think ever had a final script.
 
 
Cavill was great in Count of Monte Cristo, one of those guilty pleasure films that had no business being as good as it was.
 
 
If you look at the performances of Natalie Portman and SLJ in the prequels, there's no question it was bad direction.  (Actually as I understand it Lucas' problem was a lack of direction, like he basically just expected the actors to show up in front of the green screen and turn the lines he'd writtten into Shakespeare.)
 
 
DC's problem is, and has always been, that the suits are in charge and there's no one with a good grasp of the source material and a coherent vision.  So the DCEU has been plagued with studio interference and constant changes of direction.  WW only succeeded because studio management for once had a clue and realized they could not meaningfully contribute to a film with a strong female lead, so they left Patty Jenkins alone.  But people forget how fraught WW was to produce--it was the studio's third run at making any WW film, and Snyder's casting of Gal Gadot in JL was sharply criticized.  (Which would probably have been less intense if we'd known who the other potential casting choices were.)
 
Ironically WW benefited in a way from the grimdark DCEU, as it gave a contrasting background against which to show this lighthearted idealistic heroine.  Seriously Diana is the only thing about WW that isn't grimdark, it's literally WWI ffs.

A lot of guys that refer to themselves as 'alpha males' make me think of the term 'alpha' in a software context, where alpha code is unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

Probably most of it, I mean Natalie Portman has demonstrated that she can act quite well, in other stuff.  In the prequels she was a block of wood.

This needs to be better targeted.
 
Infinity War and Endgame didn't care.  They knew they were gonna blow through those numbers, the audience was a lock.  It'd been cultured and built over multiple movies.  DC has none of that.  They've never had box office momentum last, and their entire franchise has little to no connectivity.  So each movie is a separate crapshoot...from a studio with a poor track record.  In situations like that, then, yes, expecting major box office returns is wishful thinking.
 
But there are multiple places to trim.  Some are smart, others aren't.  Actors...again, for kick-off type movies, not the later ones.  Michael B. Jordan got $2M for Black Panther.  Pretty sure Downey didn't get a lot for the first Iron Man.  Did anyone know who Hemsworth was before Thor?  Or for that matter, Cavill before Superman?  I can actually see NOT retaining him now...because he's getting too expensive for an effort to start a franchise from scratch.  You want to find the next Hamill, Ford, Reeve, Craig, and ride them.  The risk?  You might get the next Hayden Christiansen, altho I wonder how much of *that* was just really bad direction.
 
You can also cut back on SFX, and use them when you need to, instead of overloading the movie with them.
 
DC's bigger problem is just plain tone, tho.  You can't create ongoing, building momentum from gritty, grimdark stories.

If Neflix is smart, they will beg him to reclaim his role in the Witcher

True, but it also may have led to warp drive and matter replication technology.  So there's that....